<p>Video has surfaced showing Zohran Mamdani, the socialist Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, calling for the &#8220;abolition of private property&#8221; during a previous campaign.</p>
<p>In a clip that <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/17/us-news/republican-party-slams-zohran-mamdanis-support-for-abolition-of-private-property/">made</a> the rounds on social media Thursday, Mamdani said, &#8220;Every single person should have housing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right? For what?&#8221; Mamdani said in the clip, which was from a 2020 podcast interview when he was a Democratic nominee for the New York State Assembly, a race he went on to win.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Zohran Mamdani says he&#39;d be in favor of the &quot;abolition of private property&quot; <a href="https://t.co/WRs6JEG5tv">pic.twitter.com/WRs6JEG5tv</a></p>
<p>&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1945845567336153388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now,&#8221; Mamdani said.</p>
<p>&#8220;People try and play, like, gotcha games about these kinds of things, and it&#8217;s like look, I care more about whether somebody has a home,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>The New York state assemblyman representing parts of Queens won the Democratic primary last month in an upset that threw the New York City mayor’s race into chaos.</p>
<p>Mamdani has described himself as a democratic socialist and has proposed controversial and expensive policies, including government-run grocery stores, free buses, free childcare, a rent freeze for more than two million New Yorkers living in rent-subsidized housing, and deploying mental health professionals rather than police in crises. He wants to raise both income and corporate taxes.</p>
<p>In another resurfaced clip, Mamdani talked about &#8220;seizing the means of production,&#8221; a key Marxist concept.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K7HDuoJ0MQ">said</a> in 2021 during a live-streamed conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is not terrible AI, it&#39;s a real message from the current frontrunner for NYC Mayor to his socialist comrades.</p>
<p>&quot;The end goal of seizing the means of production.&quot;</p>
<p>I can&#39;t believe this is actually happening. <a href="https://t.co/KNxQV2QCX7">pic.twitter.com/KNxQV2QCX7</a></p>
<p>&mdash; MAZE (@mazemoore) <a href="https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1939507833571246584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;There are also other issues that we firmly believe in &#8230; whether it&#8217;s the end goal of seizing the means of production where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>He posted something similar on social media in 2020.</p>
<p>“If we want everyone to be full participants in the economy, we need worker ownership of the means of production,” Mamdani <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1333943646777913346" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X.</p>
<p>During the Young Democratic Socialists conference, Mamdani also referenced transgender ideology.</p>
<p>&#8220;The ramifications of victory here is the difference between life and death for so many of our brothers, sisters, and family beyond the binary and across this borough of Queens,&#8221; Mamdani said.</p>
<p>Current Mayor Eric Adams and former Governor Andrew Cuomo are both Democrats running as independents, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa is running against all of them.</p>
<p>Mamdani is currently statistically tied with Cuomo and Sliwa, according to a HarrisX <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/harrisx-nyc-poll-tight-race-emerges-in-nyc-mayoral-general-election-but-cuomo-stronger-than-adams-against-mamdani-302506087.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> this week. Mamdani leads at 26%, with Cuomo at 23% and Sliwa at 22%, all within the margin of error. Adams trails at 13%, while 15% of voters remain undecided, according to the poll.</p>

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